Metasploit: Join the Arms Race Jul 10, 2007, 07 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (7673 reads) (Other stories by Paul Rubens)
"Metasploit has payloads for a variety of OSes including Windows, Linux, OS X, BSD and Solaris. The most basic payload is a simple bind shell: an attacker's machine connects to the victim machine and gets a command prompt. There's also a reverse attack, causing the compromised machine to connect back to the attacker and spawn a command shell. With the command shell the hacker can do anything someone sitting at the machine could do, with the privileges of the current user."
